Good morning. Its 5 30 on this wednesday april 6th. David is all. Well head over to karen rogers. Shes got your accuweather and matt pelman has traffic. Good morning. Good morning. Were off to a cold start again, temperatures colder than yesterday morning in most areas. A freeze warning once again this morning until 9 oclock. Protect any of the potted plants. Hopefully you already brought them in. Look at these temperature. 20 degrees in martins creek, one in coatesville, 23 in pottstown, youre a little better in center city itself sitting at the freezing mark but its still cold. In new jersey 21 in hammonton and vineland. 22 in glassboro near rowan and 27 degrees in dover, delaware. Heres what satellite6 and action radar look. Clouds until tomorrow and add some rain to the picture tomorrow but today were dry. Lots of sunshine. Just a few clouds. And this afternoon its not as bad as it was yesterday afternoon. Temperatures will be about 10 degrees warmer so by 9 00 a. M. Its 38. Still cold at 11 00 a. M. , about 45. By 1 00 p. M. , though, were up to 50 with the sunshine. Feeling okay. By thee p. M. , 53. By 6 00 p. M. , 53 coming down from your high of four so matt pelman were below average but better than yesterday afternoon. Wait until you see tomorrows forecast. A big change coming. Okay, were moving in the right direction. Good morning to you, karen. Good morning, everybody and they got this car moved a little bit. It is straightened out now in the right direction, was facing sideways right into the wall here along the ramp from girard avenue to the eastbound side of the schuylkill expressway. Theyre their goes penndot appearing to be pulling away from the scene. So, were in the process of clearing this out. Traffic is squeezing by on the ramp coming away from the zoo getting onto the eastbound schuylkill but its something well keep watching until its gone. Construction completely gone from the vine street expressway. Overnight closures have been lifted. They will happen again tonight at 11 oclock but for now, youre good to go along the vine, 676. Coming onto north broad street here in north philadelphia, construction crews appear to be in the process of clearing out here from the northbound lanes. They have been tearing up north broad between city hall and this point at Spring Garden and they were doing that again last night so the ride might be a little bit bumpy. In North Coventry a crash along Chestnut Hill road at cherry lane. No issues on 422. Overnight construction on 422 at 23 is gone. So both lanes opened both ways on this wednesday morning. Matt. Thank you, matt. Developing overnight bullets blast through a packed house wounding a man but thankfully missing several Young Children who were inside. Action News Reporter Annie Mccormick is live at northwest detectives with the latest. Annie. Reporter and, matt, thats right, there were 12 people packed into that home when bullets ripped through the front door and the front window. Four children were inside including a baby that was just six months old. Well, this is video from the scene last night where police say a 24yearold man was hit twice in the arm. It all happened around 11 30 at tenth and wagner in the olney section of the city. Eight shell casings were found at the scene, two bullets went through the front of the home and into the living room area shattering a window and also going through the front door. 12 people were inside including the four Young Children. Luckily they were not injured. The 24yearold is stable. Upon Police Arrival they were told by family members that the 24yearold had just been shot and heed in the scene on foot. While investigating the southeastern we were notified by einstein hospital that a 24yearold shooting victim had just arrived shot twice in his right arm. Where this victim was shot is about three blocks from einstein hospital. It turns out that this 24yearold victim ran three blocks to einstein hospital after being shot. Reporter and at this hour police say that that victim is stable. Again, those children inside the home ranging in ages from just six months to six years old. Again, they were not injured. Police are still investigating this. Of course if you have any information, you are urged to contact northwest detectives. At this hour the shooter is still at large. For now reporting live outside of northwest detectives, Annie Mccormick, channel6 action news. Tamala. Annie, thank you for that. And happening today, the tugofwar over plans to save Atlantic City goes on. Assembly speaker vin center prieto plans to introduce new legislation to help the cash strapped resort town. Its in direct opposition to a senate backed takeover bill can which has the full support of governor Chris Christie. In fact, Chris Christie will be addressing the crisis today and so will mayor don guardian. Hell deliver a response to all of these ideas as well. Meanwhile city council will vote on converting city workers to a 28day pay period. They say that would keep the government afloat after it runs out of money on friday. 5 35 now and happening today, mayor jim kenney will join other philadelphia officials to break ground on a Memorial Park at the site of one of the citys deadliest building collapses. Six people were killed and 14 were injured when a building under demolition collapsed onto the Salvation Army below. It happened at 22nd and market streets on june 5th, 2013. The Memorial Park is expected to be completed before this years anniversary of the collapse. Princeton university has hired a dean for diversity and inclusion. The announcement came one day after princeton rejected calls to remove Woodrow Wilsons name from its Public Policy school. Wilson a former princeton and u. S. President had supported segregation. The dean for diversity comes from saint louis and will start her job in august. We are the champions. Thats what the song says and champions like our villanova wildcats deserve parades. Action News Reporter Katherine Scott is live on campus where they will be celibating the ncaa win for celebrating the ncaa win for quite some time. Reporter you know theyre going to be celebrating on friday when that parade is scheduled in center city. Students are heading back to class today after a day off for all of the celebrations. The atmosphere this week on campus has just been electric. You could really see it yesterday when the students welcome the team home. How we feeling nova nation. [cheers and applause] reporter id say theyre feeling pretty good. Thousands of fans packed Villanova Stadium to welcome home jay wright and his newly crowned National Championship team. People have been waiting out here for like hours to see them and just to like have them here and finally see them is absolutely amazing. Its been 31 years, were bringing back the championship to nova nation. Reporter the team took to the platform grinning from ear to ear, pieces of the championship net pinned to their clothing. Grateful for the support of nova nation. No one deserves a National Championship more than our students and our fans. Thank you for your support throughout the years. Couldnt have asked for a better way to go out. He made it. Reporter and of course the shot, the ending, the three little points that made all the difference in the world that made them national champs. I still cant believe it. Im still in shock. I watched eigh it a few times ad it gets better each time. Reporter and were hearing that coach jay wright is that scheduled to take a phone call from president obama today who wants to offer his congratulations. Were live at villanova, Katherine Scott, channel6 action news. Thank you, katherine. And lets take a look at fridays parade route. Stepping off from 20th and market streets at 1 00 in the afternoon. The caravan proceeds east along market ending at dillworth park outside of city hall. Officials tell action news the university will pay for the extra services such as added police patrol. Decent weather for the parade karen, right . Yeah, partly sunny. Temperatures below average like low 50 for the parade but dry so hey enjoy it, right. Lets take a look right now at this mornings forecast. Storm tracker6 live double scan showing we are dry. Lets go on outside. We want to see what this day looks like and were getting it start fundamenta started loor the ben franklin bridge. We have Clear Conditions but its cold there. In fact some of the temperatures in the low suburbs just in the low 20s. 32, though, right now in the city. The dewpoint 10 degrees. Very dry air mass. The pressure is holding steady. Winds are out of the east not nearly as gusty as it has been the past couple days so i think it will feel nicer this afternoon. Ocean temperature 47. We brought in our always on day planner to help you out throughout the day. Satellite6 and action radar showing nice and clear, no clouds out there. Yes, you see the clouds trying to build in from the north and the west and thats going to impact us tomorrow. Its lets widen this out. Heres the front coming our way. You see the clouds ahead of it and rain. Well get a good soaking of rain tomorrow. Today is your dry day so lets look at how its going to go. By 8 00 a. M. Still cold and 36 despite sunshine. By 10 00 a. M. , 43. By noon, 48 degrees, sunshine an few clouds mixing in. By 3 00 p. M. , 53. Well hit a high of 54 and still be sitting at that at 5 oclock this afternoon. And then tomorrow thats when this front hits us. So, 61 for your high. We do better with the temperature but the tradeoff is we get a good amount of rain coming through with this front. Lets look at how this is going to play out. Looks like your morning commute a chance for a couple spotty showers. This is future trackers look at 1 oclock. Look at the steady rain thats coming down. You can tell its heavy rain by the colors. We see the oranges the red indicating driving rain even some thunderstorms embedded in this. So, what a change. This morning it feels like february. Tomorrow were talking about chance of thunderstorms. Even for your evening commute, looks like it could be tricky with some heavy rain. Tomorrows rain is more of an evening commute worry than a morning commute worry. Your sevenday forecast, weve got a cold start today, temperature in the suburbs just in the low 20s but this afternoon better than yesterday, 54 and the wind not as gusty. Tomorrows the rainy day especially late morning into the evening hours. 61 degrees for your high. Maybe even a thunderstorm. On friday, some sunshine, its cooler for the big villanova parade and for the union but pretty dry and 53 degrees with some sunshine. Saturday a few rain showers or wet snow showers mixing in, 45 degrees for your high. Its chilly. Sunday it stays chilly and windy, too so 48 degrees. Monday 49 59 degrees, partly sunny skies. Maybe a shower around for the knees homphillies home opener. Tuesday 58 degrees. 68 degrees. It will be a beautiful may. It will. Mark your words. It is 5 41. Still ahead on action news, the city out west the nations most generous family leave law. Hunters nab a massive alligator. Matt. Wow. Wouldnt want to meet up with him. Good morning to you matt. Were live at Painters Crossing in chadds ford along 202 at route one baltimore pike. No problems as you work your way through the traffic lights. Well talk construction in Valley Forge National park after the break. Also when we come back philadelphias on an International Stage in a way that weve never been before. More on this special festival coming up. 5 44. Traffic humming on that platt Memorial Bridge at this early hour. It is cold out there this morning. Some parts colder than it was yesterday morning but were getting to a High Temperature of about 53 degrees so some recovery this afternoon. Lets head on over to matt pelman, see what its like as youre trying head out the door and get to work. Good morning. And it is april 6th which means we are just one day away from a very big day. The birthday of our good friend Tamala Edwards coming up in just one more less than 24 hours. What are we doing. Yeah, what are you doing matt. What are you doing. Ill tell was were doing along the schuylkill expressway. We got rid of that crash on the ramp from girard avenue to the eastbound side of 76. Everything is reopened here. I wish we could get more power to this cram so it could stop telling us low voltage. Well work on that. Coming out of the suburbs a little bit of construction and one accident in North Coventry along Chestnut Hill road at clerical lane. No big issues on 422 through the pottstown area. You know volume Forge National park we have been without the knox color bridge on Yellow Springs road for quite awhile now. Now theyre saying the end of july that will reopen. They keep pushing it back. Also 252 is shut down adjacent to Yellow Springs road also through the end of july so 23 or country club road are some alternates around that 252 closure. Little bit of better construction news in warrington. Yesterday they reopened county line road a few days early. Bridge work that has wrapped up but in northampton township willow road is closed through end of june for bridge work that. Tanyard road a possible alternate. For awhile in Solebury Township we have been without route 32 river road n tinicum township another chunk of river road closed on monday. Thats going to be closed through the end of the month for some bridge work. 611 a possible alternate around it. And word coming in of a crash in bellmawr along 295 northbound by the 42 freeway but at this point as you can see speeds arent really impacted. Tam. Okay, thank you matt. New on action news a tv crew in oklahoma helped a man escape a wildfire. Video shot from the news truck shows the man attempting to drive a road grader away from the flames and then that gets stuck. The man jumps out of the tractor and runs to the news car just before that machine burst into flames. The nearby town of freedom is under evacuation orders. No injuries have been reported. And new from the overnight San Francisco is about to become the first place in the country to require full paid leave for all new parents. The citys mayor is expected to sign legislation approved unanimously by the board of supervisors. It requires employers to pay for six week levers for both new mothers and new fathers. Small Business Owners though say they dont like the bill, that they feel that its unfairly targeting them. Hunters in florida are showing off their monster catch. Lee lightsey was hog hunting with his son 13 others over the weekend when they came across that massive alligator. It weighed in at 780 pounds and was 15 feet long. They caught the gator near a pond and believe it was responsible for the disappearance of their cattle. Pifa is officially under way. There are more than 60 events in all and most of them are free. Karen rogers has an fyi for you and some highlights. 83 and nongender performing people. Reporter perform mist artist Christina Wong is staging the east coast premiere of the wong street journal. Her standup comedy is a commentary on the influence of American Culture on the rest of the world. The Los Angeles Based hip hop dance troupe antics is staging the east coast premiere of sneaker sweep. Using dance, poetry voiceover and theater to spark a conversation about the materialism in todays cultur culture. Reporter holding it down highlights the struggles of veterans of color from the wars in iraq and afghanistan. Reporter the final day of the festival saturday april 23rd South Broad Street will be closed off for a giant street fair. You just have to come down if forking in else to ride the carousel on broad street. To seat city he in a whole new light. You can find the full pifa Event Schedule at pifa. Org and you can watch more on the arts and cultural festival saturday night at 7 00 right here on 6abc. It is 5 49. Still ahead on action news a truck driver went the extra mile to save a bald eagle. Well have his story up next. Katie mcginty knowshool, get the routine. By. Her dad was a philly cop. Mom worked in a restaurant. Then, hard work opened doors. Now its not quite enough. But mcgintys working to change that, helping create thousands of new jobs. Shell always stand up for manufacturing, higher wages, and equal pay for women so opportunity never gets out of reach. Katie mcginty for senate. Women voters responsible for the content of this advertising. One of nasas martian rovers captured a picture of a dust devil. The meteorological phenomenon mars is like what it is here on earth, its the result of hot air rising and rotating picking up tiny grains of dust from the ground and then that makes that spinning vortex visible to the eye. Hm. So cool to see that. Another planet. Only kind of dust devil im really familiar with. Is the sucking thing, too. The vacuum. Outside this morning along 95 looking good so far this morning here by the airport. We expect midday restrictions in the southbound lanes. Theyre going to be roving about long stretch between the philadelphia line down through delaware county. 9 00 until 3 00 through 95 southbound in this area watch out for the roving work crews. Weve got that resurfacing project now going on. Started on monday along the kelly drive. About a three and a half mile stretch. You may find a bumpy ride there. You might be better off on the mlk can. Theyre working every time except the rush hours but still around the clock you could find the bumpy conditions. Mass transit no bums i bumps ine road. Everything on time. In Atlantic City temperatures dropped to 23 degrees at pomona Atlantic City airport right now and the record was 18 degrees or actually 24 degrees set back in 1982. So in philadelphia it doesnt look like were going break any records. Too. Th32. The record is 28n allentown the record low is 18. New record low in Atlantic City telling you it is cold out there this morning. Unusually so. When youre dressing the kids even this time of year, yeah you need to tell them to put on the heavy coat. I left a note for my husband make sure my sons got the coat and gloves and hat. Lets take a look at the high today. 54 degrees. Even though were starting off cold the afternoon is not going to be so. With sunshine, dry conditions, 54, well take it, matt. Thank you, karen. And you can get the sevenday forecast and a live look at storm tracker6 radar any time at 6abc. Com weather. Two Police Officers made a startling discovery behind pet shop in north jersey. They found 67 puppies and small dogs packed in crates inside the van in paramus early monday morning. The officers say they heard yelping coming inside the van an powerful smell. The temperature inside the vehicle was only 38 degrees. The puppies were taken to an Animal Hospital to be checked out. Police say the van is registered to the pet stores owner. The Bergen County Health Department revoked his business license last week. A driver in Washington State accidentally struck that bald eagle but did his best to save the bird. He even cradled the majestic creature in his lap. He shared 92 these photos that were taken as he waited for wildlife officials along a highway in port orchard. He wrapped the eagle in his own safety vest to keep it warm and calm it down. Unfortunately doctors at the shelter could not save the bird from serious internal injuries. This afternoon at dunkin, sip and save with a freshly brewed favorite for 99 cents. Refresh with a medium iced tea or iced coffee for 99 cents from 2 00 to 6 00 p. M. America runs on dunkin. Make today smile with 6 Dunkin Donuts for 3. 99, powdered with sugar, layered with frosting, filled with jelly, or topped with sprinkles. Share some smiles with 6 donuts for 3. 99 today. America runs on dunkin. Vice President Joe Biden spoke out against sexual assaults on College Campuses yesterday as part of the national its on us campaign. Biden told a crowd at the university of pittsburgh that young people must keep working to change culture. Drones may soon help engineers inspect bridges in our area. The Delaware River and Bay Authority ran a test run with an Unmanned Aircraft over the delaware Memorial Bridge yesterday. Officials expect the drones to make inspections safer and less expensive. 5 57 and still to ahead on action news, pay pal backs out of a deal that would have meant hundreds of new jobs for a Southern State because of a controversial new law. Dont worry about that socalled Sports Illustrated cover jinx for these guys. They already won the whole thing. Find fantasy shows. When it comes to the things you love, you want more. Love romance . Get lost in every embrace. Into sports . Follow every pitch, every play and every win. Change the way you experience tv with x1 from xfinity. In the last eight years, the fracking industry has spent over 40 Million Dollars on lobbying in pennsylvania. So its no surprise that even though theyve had over 4,000 violations, all theyve ever gotten is just a slap on the wrist its time for that change. Im josh shapiro, and ill hold the oil and Gas Companies criminally liable for poisoning our air and our drinking water. Ill be an attorney general who always works for you. Democrat josh shapiro. Hell stand up for us. To the women who know what real values are, you inspire us to bring you real value every day. To the women who know what real values are, action news. Delaware valleys leading news program. With matt odonnell, Tamala Edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. Good morning. Its 6 00 a. M. On this wednesday april 6th. Developing right now. A gunman unleashed a barrage of bullets striking a man at a house that was filled with children. We will have a live report. Flipflop. Both president ial frontrunners took a back seat to other candidates in wisconsin. They had very different responses the two different parties. The campaign trail will stop in philadelphia today. And its still kind of feels like winter out that right now but we are in for a recovery
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